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Clear fragment backstack without invoking onCreateView of popped fragments

My app has 3 UI levels, each level has its own fragment, A -> B -> C.
I wish to optionally allow my app user to navigate straight to the top level fragment i.e. from C -> A without invoking B.
i.e., I still want to allow the user to go from C->B if they press the back button, but in the C fragment, I have a "Home" button, which takes them directly to A. This is the operation where I want to flush the backstack.
Additionally, I want the user to be able to go from B->A using the back button, hence I'm adding A and B both to the backstack.
I have tried the options from this SO post but in each case, onCreateView gets invoked for each fragment, even if I use fm_.popBackStackImmediate(null, FragmentManager.POP_BACK_STACK_INCLUSIVE);
Also checked this thread, it seems to recommend using popBackStackImmediate(null, FragmentManager.POP_BACK_STACK_INCLUSIVE)
Can anyone please suggest a way to pop the entire backstack without having the onCreateView called on popped fragments?

Dont add backStack line for going from fragment B->C
while going from A->B use
HighlightFragment highlightFragment=new HighlightFragment(FirstReaderScreen.this);
getSupportFragmentManager()
.beginTransaction()
.add(R.id.LL_Fragment, highlightFragment) // LL_Fragment is container
.addToBackStack(null)
.commit();
while going B->C use
HighlightFragment highlightFragment=new HighlightFragment(FirstReaderScreen.this);
getSupportFragmentManager()
.beginTransaction()
.add(R.id.LL_Fragment, highlightFragment)
.commit();
dont add line .addtobackstack(null)
This worked for me

i estimate you're using replace fragment.
try to use begintransaction.hide / show to manage many fragment inside 1 activity if you don want to popback
//on Activity
FragmentTransaction fragmentTransaction = getSupportFragmentManager().beginTransaction();
fragmentTransaction.replace(containerId, new FragmentA(), fragmentA.getClass().getSimpleName());
fragmentTransaction.commit();
//inside fragment A to jump fragment without PopBackStack
getFragmentManager().beginTransaction().hide(this).commit();
getFragmentManager().beginTransaction().show(new FragmentB()).commit();

This is working for me when needing to clear the back stack for tab switches in BottomNavigationView
public void clearBackStack() {
int backStackEntryCount = mFragmentActivity
.getSupportFragmentManager()
.getBackStackEntryCount();
for (int i = 0; i < backStackEntryCount; i++) {
mFragmentActivity.getSupportFragmentManager().popBackStack();
}
}

Android Pager using Fragment

In android Coding I have some doubts.I am working In Paging concepts.
I have two Fragments. One is Master Fragment and another one is Transaction Fragment.
In master one Button is available. That is vendor. If we click the vendor button we can create a new vendor details.
Its work fine to move forward. That is if we click the vendor button the next page is opened. But if return backward by pressing it doesn't work.
By pressing the back button from new vendor creation to vendor it works. But if we press back button from vendor to Pager fragment it does n't work.
Here I have attached the coding and screen shots. Please help me. Thanks in advance.
Screen Shots
Master
Transaction
Vendor
Vendor Creation
The following is the code when we click the backbutton
Fragment fragment = new MainActivity();
FragmentManager fragmentManager = getFragmentManager();
fragmentManager.beginTransaction()
.replace(R.id.frag_act_cont, fragment, "Class Name").commit();

I don't know if I correctly understand your question. Have a look at the Android Developer Page here
To be able to provide proper back navigation you have to add the fragment to the back stack by
getSupportFragmentManager().beginTransaction()
.add(detailFragment, "detail")
// Add this transaction to the back stack
.addToBackStack()
.commit();

When you press back button the onBackPressed method is called that causes activity to finish.Have a look at this post:http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22011751/life-cycle-of-android-activity-after-pressing-back-button
and try this piece of code.On your backpress method do something like this:
#Override
public void onBackPressed() {
super.onBackPressed();
FragmentManager fragmentManager = getSupportFragmentManager();
fragmentManager.beginTransaction().replace(R.id.frag_act_cont, "Class Name").commit();
}

How to keep only first added Fragment in back stack (fragment overlapping)?

Scenario what i'm trying to achieve:
Loading activity with two frame containers (for list of items and for details).
At the app launch time add listFragment in listFrame and some initial infoFragment in detailsFrame containers.
Navigating through list items without adding each detail transaction to back stack (want to keep only infoFragment in stack).
As soon as user hit back button (navigate back) he falls back to intial infoFragment what was added in launch time.
If sequential back navigation fallows then apps exit.
My code:
protected override void OnCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)
{
...
var listFrag = new ListFragment();
var infoFrag = new InfoFragment();
var trans = FragmentManager.BeginTransaction();
trans.Add(Resource.Id.listFrame, listFrag);
trans.Add(Resource.Id.detailsFrame, infoFrag);
trans.Commit();
...
}
public void OnItemSelected(int id)
{
var detailsFrag = DetailFragment.NewInstance(id);
var trans = FragmentManager.BeginTransaction();
trans.Replace(Resource.Id.detailsFrame, detailsFrag);
if (FragmentManager.BackStackEntryCount == 0)
{
trans.AddToBackStack(null);
}
trans.Commit();
}
My problem:
After back button has been hit, infoFrag is overlapped with previous detailFrag! Why?

You can do this:
if (getSupportFragmentManager().getBackStackEntryCount() > 0) {
getSupportFragmentManager().popBackStack(getSupportFragmentManager().getBackStackEntryAt(0).getId(), getSupportFragmentManager().POP_BACK_STACK_INCLUSIVE);
} else {
super.onBackPressed();}
In your activity, so you to keep first fragment.
You shouldn't have, in your first fragment, the addToBackStack. But, in the rest, yes.

Very nice explanation by Budius. I read his advice and implemented similar navigation, which I would like to share with others.
Instead of replacing fragments like this:
Transaction.remove(detail1).add(detail2)
Transaction.remove(detail2).add(detail3)
Transaction.remove(detail3).add(detail4)
I added a fragment container layout in the activity layout file. It can be either LinearLayout, RelativeLayot or FrameLayout etc.. So in the activity on create I had this:
transaction.replace(R.id.HomeInputFragment, mainHomeFragment).commit();
mainHomeFragment is the fragment I want to get back to when pressing the back button, like infoFrag. Then, before EVERY NEXT transaction I put:
fragmentManager.popBackStackImmediate();
transaction.replace(R.id.HomeInputFragment, frag2).addToBackStack(null).commit();
or
fragmentManager.popBackStackImmediate();
transaction.replace(R.id.HomeInputFragment, frag3).addToBackStack(null).commit();
That way you don't have to keep track of which fragment is currenty showing.

The problem is that the transaction that you're backing from have two steps:
remove infoFrag
add detailsFrag (that is the first1 detail container that was added)
(we know that because the documentation This is essentially the same as calling remove(Fragment) for all currently added fragments that were added with the same containerViewId and then add(int, Fragment, String) with the same arguments given here. )
So whenever the system is reverting that one transaction is reverting exactly those 2 steps, and it say nothing about the last detailFrag that was added to it, so it doesn't do anything with it.
There're two possible work arounds I can think on your case:
Keep a reference on your activity to the last detailsFrag used and use the BackStackChange listener to whenever the value change from 1 to 0 (you'll have to keep track of previous values) you also remove that one remaining fragment
on every click listener you'll have to popBackStackImmediatly() (to remove the previous transaction) and addToBackStack() on all transactions. On this workaround you can also use some setCustomAnimation magic to make sure it all looks nice on the screen (e.g. use a alpha animation from 0 to 0 duration 1 to avoid previous fragment appearing and disappearing again.
ps. I agree that the fragment manager/transaction should be a bit more clever to the way it handles back stack on .replace() actions, but that's the way it does it.
edit:
what is happening is like this (I'm adding numbers to the details to make it more clear).
Remember that .replace() = .remove().add()
Transaction.remove(info).add(detail1).addToBackStack(null) // 1st time
Transaction.remove(detail1).add(detail2) // 2nd time
Transaction.remove(detail2).add(detail3) // 3rd time
Transaction.remove(detail3).add(detail4) // 4th time
so now we have detail4 on the layout:
< Press back button >
System pops the back stack and find the following back entry to be reversed
remove(info).add(detail1);
so the system makes that transaction backward.
tries to remove detail1 (is not there, so it ignores)
re-add(info) // OVERLAP !!!
so the problem is that the system doesn't realise that there's a detail4 and that the transaction was .replace() that it was supposed to replace whatever is in there.

You could just override onBackPressed and commit a transaction to the initial fragment.

I'm guessing but:
You've added the transaction to replace infoFrag with 1st detailsFrag into the backstack.
But then you replace 1st detailsFrag with 2nd detailsFrag.
At this point when you click back, the fragment manager cannot cleanly replace 1st detailsFrag with infoFrag as 1st detailsFrag has already been removed and replaced.
Whether the overlapping behaviour is expected or not I don't know.
I would suggest debugging the Android core code to see what it is doing.
I'm not sure whether you can achieve without say overriding Activity::onBackPressed() and doing the pops yourself having added all transactions to the backstack.

Swap two fragment simultaneously

In my application i have one activity and i am adding two fragments at run time.I need to swap these two fragment simultaneously. Fragment 1 consist a button and i want when i click that button fragment 1 moves to right side of the screen and other fragment to the left side of the activity.
In the onClick method of the button i tried something like this
#Override
public void onClick(View v) {
FragmentTransaction ft = getFragmentManager().beginTransaction();
Fragment newFragment = getFragmentManager().findFragmentById(R.id.pageA);
ft.remove(newFragment);
Fragment newFragmentB = getFragmentManager().findFragmentById(R.id.pageB);
ft.remove(newFragmentB);
ft.add(R.id.pageB, newFragment);
ft.add(R.id.pageA, newFragmentB);
ft.addToBackStack(null);
ft.commit();
}
But i am getting the following error
java.lang.IllegalStateException: Can't change container ID of fragment PageA{40653da0 #0 id=0x7f060001}: was 2131099649 now 2131099650
I want something like this when i click the button on Page A then Position of Page A and PageB should swap with each other.

I have a similar issue ( IllegalStateException: Can't change container ID of Fragment ) and i solved by swapping the containers instead of the fragments... Nonetheless i still have no clue as to whether it's possibile to swap directly fragments. As I wrote in the aforementioned post, it seems to work only on ics!

I posted a solution to this problem to a similar question. My approach is to re-create the fragment, but keeping the state by saving it first and re-applying it to the new instance.
See https://stackoverflow.com/a/14951987/599614.

Back key to pop the Fragment shows overlapping fragments

I created a sample app to test this overlapping issue.
I have a fragment type, Fragment1, and I create a new instance of Fragment1 and add it to a FrameLayout in my activity at runtime. I add the fragment with the help of a few buttons.
Note: I have given each new instance of Fragment1 a different number(#1, #2, #3, etc.) to display on the UI to help me figure out which fragment I am viewing.
So.. here is what I do:
Click on Button 3, create new instance of Fragment1 and add it to Frame1.
Click on Button 4, create new instance of Fragment1 and add it to Frame1 and add it to the fragment backstack.
Repeat 1 and 2.
Repeat 1 and 2.
Now, I have fragments in this order: 1(#1),2(#2),1(#3),2(#4),1(#5),2(#6).
I press the back key when viewing fragment #6.
Back key press, UI displays (#5).
Back key press, UI displays (#3 AND #5),
Back key press, UI displays (#1, #3, AND #5)
It seems fragments are getting displayed ON TOP of each other.
WHY? Is there an overlapping issue? How can I clear out this overlapping issue. I thought this would be an issue on the compatibility library... but it is also on 3.0.
Code for adding fragments:
public int doFragmentChange(int cont1, Fragment frag1, String tag1, int cont2, Fragment frag2, String tag2,
boolean addToStack, String stackTag) {
FragmentManager fm = getFragmentManager();// getSupportFragmentManager();
FragmentTransaction ft = fm.beginTransaction();
if (frag1 != null) {
ft.replace(cont1, frag1, tag1);
}
if (frag2 != null) {
ft.replace(cont2, frag2, tag2);
}
// add fragment to stack
if (addToStack)
ft.addToBackStack(stackTag);
return ft.commit();
}

If you perform two add calls one after the other (two commit calls) then yes the fragments will appear overlaid, one on top of the other effectively.
So (for new example) if say you replace frag1 with frag2 and then frag3 with frag4 in the same frame with no backstack transaction then I would expect frag2 and frag4 to be overlaid.
Furtheremore there is also a potential issue in your chaining of replace. You should call a separate commit for each. See Android — Replace Fragment Back Stack With New Stack?.

Just override the onBackPress() or onKeyUp and remove the top fragment.